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gdanmitchell wrote:
I most often use a slight positive clarity setting. It can go as high as +12. I've also been known to use a negative clarity setting in some photographs that are more about soft light and atmosphere.
A "typical" landscape setting might be around +12, though this can vary a lot. For street photography and similar I'm fairly consistent about using the positive value.
It is important to note that I do some things in post that might seem a bit unusual to some, and that these may make my settings for clarity less than ideal for folks who don't do these other things. For example I often use somewhat high contrast settings, but then push the shadow value much higher and more.
By the way, due to the nature of how "clarity" works, you won't see the effect very much at all if you view at 100%. To understand what it does it makes more sense to view it at smaller sizes or perhaps at a size where you can just see the whole image on the screen. Adobe isn't completely clear about what "clarity" actually does, but I"m convinced that it is mostly a form a sharpening (which is really local contrast enhancement) that uses a relatively small amount setting and a large radius. (A bit more explanation is found in this recent article of mine.)
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Thanks Dan. This whole idea got started when I saw your clarity setting of 1 in that workflow you published.
Are you also finding, like me that viewing a 50mp image on a monitor with 88DPI is difficult? Perhaps yours is higher than 88dpi. But nothing looks sharp. If I view at print size which seems appropriate, I am wanting to see more detail at a larger size. If I view at 100%, it looks fuzzy, but as I said, its the monitor that is fuzzy not the image.
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